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...around for other stuff to take. It was like I was in a trance," she says, smiling at her behavior. When she finally left, her progress remained slow. The estimated 15,410 who got out, the NIST findings show, took about a minute to make it down each floor--twice as long as the standard engineering codes predicted. It took Zedeńo more than an hour to descend. "I never found myself in a hurry," she says. "It's weird because the sound, the way the building shook, should have kept me going fast. But it was almost...
...hard figures on the growth of mompreneurs, but they are clearly part of a larger trend of female entrepreneurship. According to a study by the nonprofit Center for Women's Business Research, women are starting new businesses at twice the rate of men and own a 50% or greater stake in 10.6 million U.S. businesses. Organizations and websites have sprung up to serve the women behind these enterprises. Ladies Who Launch, an online, women's-only networking group, offers live workshops to its 25,000 members--40% of whom are moms. Authors Patricia Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano dispense advice...
...fellow students—namely seniors such as myself, who now have to scramble to figure out if it is worth the time to finish the application to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), given that the word “Harvard” should immediately make any reviewer think twice...
...uncomfortable at first, the only way to fully solve a problem and move past it is to face it directly and not passively. As my shrewd red-haired friend says, the most important thing we learn from James Bond movies is that you only live twice. And you should only hit the snooze button once...
...there to name Pope John XXIII's successor. But no one anticipated a long conclave--and the expectations were not wrong. At 11:22, smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward from the Sistine Chapel, where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black--the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there was no mistake: the smoke was white--bella bianca. Moments later, the Vatican Radio, which during the 1958 conclave...